Websurfx aggregates results from multiple search engines into one private, ad-free interface that never tracks your queries. Written in Rust, the backend provides memory safety against buffer overflows and data races at the language level while handling concurrent requests across upstream providers like DuckDuckGo and Searx. A built-in re-ranking algorithm scores and merges results by relevance, producing a unified page that draws from many sources while appearing as one coherent search. Safe-search filtering operates across four levels from unrestricted to complete content blocking, with regex-based filter lists for parental controls in schools and organizations. Upstream requests route through configurable proxy chains or Tor, preventing search providers from correlating your queries with a specific IP address. Four Docker image variants target different caching strategies: hybrid Redis plus in-memory for maximum throughput, Redis-only, in-memory-only, or zero-persistence for environments where cached queries must never touch disk. The Lua configuration file controls engine selection, request timeouts, rate limiting thresholds, and production-mode delays that throttle upstream traffic to prevent abuse. Quick-result widgets handle calculations, currency conversions, and unit transformations inline without external redirects. Image search capabilities serve visual discovery for designers and researchers who need media results without surveillance. Runs on a RepoCloud VPS with dedicated resources and full root access. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Every unit of income gets a job in Actual Budget - a local-first personal finance app built on envelope (zero-sum) budgeting, where you can only budget cash you actually have, which keeps the plan honest by construction. The data model is a SQLite file that lives on your device and works fully offline; the self-hosted Node.js sync server adds background multi-device synchronization using CRDT-based distributed-systems machinery, browser and mobile access as an installable web app, and automated backups. Optional end-to-end encryption makes the synced data unreadable even to the server hosting it. Transactions enter three ways: manual entry, file import (CSV, QIF, OFX, QFX, CAMT.053), or automatic bank syncing through GoCardless for EU/UK banks and SimpleFIN for US/Canada. Built-in YNAB4 and nYNAB importers migrate complete budget histories, and reports, schedules for recurring transactions, and rule-based transaction cleanup handle the day-to-day. A fully featured local API lets developers script custom importers and automation against their own data. 100% free, open source, and 26k stars strong.

RustXNG gives your AI agents a private web search API that needs no keys, no accounts, and no per-search fees: ask once and get ranked results plus the text of the top pages, ready to ground an answer in real sources. A single request fans out to 180 search engines in parallel, drawn from 226 engine types covering general web, images, video, academic literature, package registries, and news, then merges what comes back with its own ranking that rewards term coverage and canonical-site authority instead of trusting any one engine's order. Engines that time out or keep answering nothing are suspended with backoff and rested automatically, so one dead source never stalls a task, and a repeated query returns from cache in about a hundredth of a second. Call it over HTTP with the familiar SearXNG-shaped JSON, CSV, RSS, or HTML formats, narrow results by domain, engine, or time range, or run the built-in MCP server and hand your agent native search and read_page tools with bounded, truncation-aware responses. Page fetches are hardened against untrusted URLs, an experimental local index can crawl your own corpus and merge it into results, and health, metrics, and per-engine status stay visible through the ops endpoints and the browser UI. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Grimoire captures, extracts, and indexes the content behind your bookmarks so you can search what pages actually say, not just their titles and URLs. The ingestion pipeline accepts links from the web UI, REST API, MCP server, browser bookmarklet, or bulk import, then fetches each page and extracts readable content using specialized parsers for GitHub repos, GitHub issues, StackOverflow threads, YouTube transcripts, PDFs, and standard web articles. Everything stores locally in SQLite with file-based content archives. Search operates in three modes: FTS5 keyword matching for exact terms, semantic embedding search for meaning-based retrieval using vector similarity, or a hybrid ranking mode combining both. Optional AI providers including OpenAI, Ollama, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint generate automatic tags, summaries, and embeddings without being required for core functionality. The interface built with React 18, Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Radix UI supports categories, nested tags, notes, archive and trash states, read-later flags, and multi-user isolated spaces. A single Bun-powered Hono process serves both the compiled frontend and the REST API on port 3210, requiring only one Docker container and a SQLite volume. Backup and restore export bookmarks, content, settings, and metadata as portable ZIP archives. Nearly 3,000 GitHub stars reflect growing adoption among developers and researchers. Running on a VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

CRM mechanics applied to your actual relationships instead of a sales pipeline: Nametag is a Personal Relationship Manager (PRM). It exists to fix the things you keep forgetting: when you last talked to an old friend, their kids' names, the birthday you missed twice. Contacts are tracked with flexible attributes - names, birthdays, important dates, and free-form notes for everything else - and organized into custom groups. Where it goes beyond a contacts app is relationship mapping: you define how people connect to each other (family, friends, colleagues, or custom relationship types), and an interactive D3.js-powered graph renders your entire personal network so you can see clusters and connections at a glance. Staying in touch is automated: scheduled reminders fire for birthdays, important dates, and reach-out nudges, with optional email delivery via a Resend API key for password resets and reminder notifications. Built with Next.js, it is mobile-responsive, ships with full dark mode, and supports multiple languages including English and Spanish. Because it is self-hosted, there are no account tiers or contact limits - unlimited people and relationships, with every note about your personal life stored on your own server rather than a social-graph company's cloud. A lightweight, single-container deployment makes it one of the easiest personal tools to run.

TapMap draws a computer's live network connections on an interactive world map, so you can watch which applications are talking to which services, where those services sit, and what normal looks like for that machine. A local pipeline scans active sockets, extracts the remote addresses, and enriches them with geolocation from databases stored on the machine itself. Every connection carries the owning application or process, its network operator, and the operating system's verification status for that app, and places that share a location are highlighted when connections overlap. The same view lists local open ports, both TCP listeners and bound UDP sockets, established services on your LAN, and public services whose location could not be mapped. A rolling 30-day history turns raw connections into awareness: an Insights panel surfaces new applications, providers, countries, and ports, plus the most frequent activity, while a Significant Connections log records first sightings and failed verifications. A Daily Activity Report goes further, sorting applications into seen-once, occasional, recurring, and stable patterns, analyzing provider concentration, and charting country activity with detailed timelines. New significant connections can raise a desktop notification or publish to an MQTT broker you configure. Nothing is sent anywhere by default: processing happens locally, with no telemetry. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

When the connection drops, Project NOMAD keeps serving offline Wikipedia, Khan Academy courses, maps, and an optional private AI assistant from a single Debian-based Linux server. The core needs only about 5 GB of disk and under 1 GB of RAM. Content is what fills the drive, and a setup wizard sorts it into Essential, Standard, and Comprehensive tiers while a storage bar tracks the running total. Wikipedia runs from a quick-reference set of the top 100,000 articles to the complete English edition with images at about 121 GB, and Kiwix also serves medical references, survival and repair guides, and Project Gutenberg ebooks. Kolibri adds Khan Academy courses with multi-user progress tracking, and any browser on the network can study. Offline maps cover the whole globe, single countries, or regions, with markers you can search, color, and navigate to by coordinate. The AI assistant is the heavy part, bringing the install to roughly 25 GB. It chats through Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible server such as LM Studio, searches uploaded documents, lists sources with dates when known, and lets vision models read attached images. CyberChef handles encoding and hashing, and FlatNotes keeps Markdown notes. The Supply Depot adds one-click apps or your own Docker containers. Opt-in auto-updates for the Command Center, installed apps, and downloaded content run inside a window you set. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

In-app, website, link, and email surveys feed one open-source experience management platform: Formbricks. Its distinguishing strength is targeted in-app research: a JavaScript SDK triggers surveys on user events and attributes, with segmentation rules like "power users who have not seen a survey in 10 days," so questions reach the right cohort at the right moment instead of a mass email blast. The no-code editor offers 20+ question types including NPS, CSAT, CES, matrix, ranking, and file upload, with skip logic, conditional branching, best-practice templates, and full brand theming. Responses feed built-in analytics with summaries and CSV/JSON export, and integrations push data to Slack, Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, and n8n, with webhooks and an open API on every tier. Because self-hosted surveys load from your own domain rather than a blacklisted third-party script host, ad blockers do not suppress them - in-app surveys reach users that Hotjar-style tools silently miss, which measurably raises response rates. Self-hosting also removes the third-party sub-processor from your privacy policy entirely: survey responses often contain PII, and keeping them on your own server matters for GDPR-sensitive and regulated industries. The Community Edition has no response caps or tier-gated features, so core functionality and your data stay accessible regardless of any subscription. Next.js on PostgreSQL, AGPLv3.

With over 110,000 GitHub stars and one of the fastest-growing open-source communities in the self-hosted space, Immich delivers a Google Photos-grade experience entirely on your own hardware. The platform handles automatic background backup from Android and iOS devices, deduplication, and support for RAW formats, LivePhotos, and MotionPhotos. Its machine learning pipeline runs facial recognition and clustering locally on your server, enabling you to group photos by person without sending a single image to the cloud. CLIP-based semantic search lets you find images by describing their content in natural language, while metadata-driven search covers EXIF data, dates, and locations. The web interface built with SvelteKit provides a responsive timeline view, albums, shared albums with configurable permissions, public sharing links with optional passwords and expiry dates, partner sharing for family libraries, and a global map plotting photos by GPS coordinates. Administrative features include multi-user support with per-user storage quotas, OAuth integration, API key management, and a user-defined storage structure for organizing files on disk. The architecture uses PostgreSQL for metadata, Redis with BullMQ for background job queues handling thumbnail generation, video transcoding, and smart search indexing, and exposes over 400 REST API endpoints documented via OpenAPI with auto-generated SDKs for web, mobile, and CLI clients. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Merge, split, compress, convert, edit, annotate, redact, OCR, and sign PDFs - BentoPDF packs over 130 tools into a privacy-first toolkit that runs entirely in the browser through WebAssembly. Files are never uploaded - processing happens in browser memory on the user's machine and disappears when the tab closes, which makes the tool GDPR-clean by architecture and safe for financial, legal, and internal documents. The engine combines WASM builds of PyMuPDF, Ghostscript, and CoherentPDF; Tesseract handles OCR with searchable text-layer output; Office conversions cover Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; and digital signatures use X.509 certificates (PFX/PEM) with the private key staying on the client. Because there is no server-side processing, deployment is a static-file exercise: a single Docker container, or any static host. A dedicated self-hosted build strips the marketing pages while keeping every tool, and air-gapped deployments are first-class - an automated script bundles the WASM modules, OCR language data, and fonts for fully offline networks. No accounts, no limits, no watermarks; TypeScript and Vite under the hood.

Haven gives your community a private chat server with voice calls, screen sharing, and end-to-end encrypted direct messages where friends join via invite link in their browser without installing apps or creating third-party accounts. Real-time messaging supports image uploads via paste and drag-drop, emoji reactions, replies, threads, typing indicators, @mentions with autocomplete, and inline GIF search through Tenor or GIPHY. Peer-to-peer WebRTC voice chat includes per-user volume sliders, mute and deafen controls, talking indicators, and screen sharing with picture-in-picture mode. Direct messages use ECDH P-256 key exchange with AES-256-GCM symmetric encryption where private keys never leave the browser, ensuring not even the server operator can read them. Twenty-plus visual themes with stackable effects including CRT scanlines, Matrix Rain, Cyberpunk Text Scramble, Snowfall, and Campfire Embers let users personalize the experience with configurable intensity sliders. Rich Presence integration shows what members are playing or listening to via Last.fm, Steam, and Spotify. A built-in bot API supports webhooks and custom slash commands, while Discord history import preserves channels, threads, forums, reactions, pins, and avatars. The Node.js server deploys via Docker Compose or a single batch file that auto-handles dependencies, SSL certificates, and configuration. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Notes on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and the terminal, synced through your own server: Joplin pairs its open-source clients with Joplin Server, the official self-hosted backend that replaces Dropbox, OneDrive, or Nextcloud as the synchronization target. Notes are Markdown with inline attachments (images, PDFs, audio), organized into hierarchical notebooks and sub-notebooks with cross-cutting tags, alongside to-do lists with reminders and alarms. End-to-end encryption is the headline feature: enabled in the clients, it encrypts sync payloads on-device before upload, so the server stores blobs it cannot read - genuine protection even if the host is compromised. The desktop app offers both Rich Text and Markdown editors, extended by a plugin ecosystem, custom themes, and an Extension API for writing your own scripts; a Web Clipper for Chrome and Firefox captures full pages or screenshots straight into notebooks. Joplin Server ships as a Docker image with SQLite for evaluation and PostgreSQL for production, offers a filesystem storage driver for large content, and includes multi-user support and note sharing - all free under AGPL-3.0 when self-hosted. Notes stay in an open format, so the exit path always exists.

SnappyMail is a fast, privacy-respecting webmail client that connects to any existing IMAP and SMTP server, booting in under a second with a JavaScript payload of just 138 KB under Brotli compression (down from RainLoop's 8 MB fork origin). No database is required: all configuration and user data persists as flat files in a single volume, making Docker deployment trivially simple with the roughly 30 MB image consuming approximately 50 MB of RAM. Built-in PGP encryption supports three backends: OpenPGP.js v5 with ECDSA and EDDSA key generation, GnuPG integration, and Mailvelope browser extension compatibility, eliminating the need for separate encryption plugins. The integrated Sieve script editor enables users to create mail filtering rules, vacation auto-responders, and forwarding conditions directly within the web interface when connected to ManageSieve-capable servers on port 4190. Multi-domain administration allows a single instance to serve users across multiple IMAP servers with per-domain authentication routing. The admin panel manages extensions, security settings, branding customization, and domain configuration. GDPR-friendly by design, it removes all social media integrations, Gravatar lookups, and external tracking present in RainLoop. Dark mode strips background and font colors from email messages. The modified Squire HTML editor replaces CKEditor for composing rich-text messages. Scores 99% on Lighthouse performance. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Security-conscious IT departments pick Passbolt for its cryptography: every user holds an OpenPGP key pair, and shared credentials are encrypted individually to each recipient's public key - real end-to-end encryption, not a vault password handed around. All crypto runs client-side in the mandatory browser extension (distributed and signed through the Chrome and Firefox stores, deliberately separating the crypto code from the server that stores ciphertext); private keys and passphrases never touch your instance, and the server admin cannot read a single secret. Authentication uses the challenge-based GpgAuth protocol, secrets are digitally signed to verify sender integrity, and metadata encryption extends protection to resource names and URLs. Day to day it behaves like a polished commercial manager: auto-fill and auto-save in forms, strong password generation, anti-phishing protection, TOTP storage, folder hierarchies shared per-user or per-group with fine-grained permissions and instant cryptographic revocation. Native iOS, Android, and desktop apps ship alongside a JSON API, CLI, and SDKs for CI/CD secret retrieval and rotation. The PHP server runs on MariaDB and is AGPL-licensed open source - including the paid tiers' codebase - with published security audits.

Only the person holding the link can open what you share with SkySend, a self-hosted file and note sharing service that encrypts everything in the browser before it leaves your device. Sending a contract? Drop in the file, several files, or a whole folder, and share the link. Need documents from a client? Send an upload link instead, and whatever comes back is encrypted for you alone. Handing over a password or an SSH key? Write it into a note that burns after reading. Notes can mix text, Markdown, generated passwords, and highlighted code in a single page. Every share can expire by time, stop after a set number of downloads or views, and carry an optional password as a second lock. The command-line client uploads, downloads, and reads notes with the same encryption, and its full-screen mode shows each link as a QR code. No accounts are needed: My Links keeps your shares in the browser, and optional OIDC sign-in limits who may create them. Encrypted uploads sit on local disk or any S3-compatible bucket, and the interface offers 13 languages and three themes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Why should your chat history live on someone else's servers? Chatpad AI - a React/TypeScript front end for the OpenAI API, built on the Mantine component library - is designed around that question. Enter your own OpenAI API key and start chatting with GPT models; every conversation, prompt, and setting is stored locally in your browser via DexieJS over IndexedDB, with no tracking, no cookies, and no backend database at all. That architecture is the point - the Docker image is just Nginx serving static files, making it one of the lightest AI deployments in the catalog, and pay-per-token API pricing typically undercuts a ChatGPT Plus subscription for moderate use. The interface earns its "premium quality" tagline with the details: a persona selector that switches communication styles per conversation, a saved-prompts library for messages you reuse constantly, organized chat history, and full data export/import so conversations move between browsers or into backups as files you control. A JSON config file customizes defaults - models, API endpoints, UI options - without rebuilding the image. AGPL-licensed, with desktop builds available upstream. For teams that want ChatGPT's utility with a self-hosted, zero-telemetry footprint, Chatpad is the minimal, sane answer.

Open your laptop in a Lisbon cafe and your files at home answer as if the laptop never left the desk: AnywhereLAN stitches your own machines into one private mesh network with stable names like work-laptop.awl, no port forwarding and nothing exposed to internet scanners. There is no coordination server to trust. Peers announce themselves in the libp2p DHT, identify with ed25519 keys and connect directly over QUIC or TCP with TLS 1.3, hole-punching through NAT and borrowing a community relay only when both ends sit behind hostile firewalls. Send a browser out through the house connection with the built-in SOCKS5 proxy on 127.0.0.1:1066, handy on regional blocks and hostile hotel Wi-Fi. Prefer the full tunnel: the VPN gateway routes every IPv4 byte through a chosen peer, so the whole machine presents the exit node's address to the world. Devices join through invite links or QR codes. Every peer approves its friends and grants exit rights individually, and identity is a keypair you hold, so no account recovery email can betray the network. Manage it from the bundled web UI at admin.awl, script it from the awl CLI, watch it through Prometheus metrics on port 8639, and run it on Windows, macOS, Linux servers and Android phones. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MPL-2.0 licensed.

Ditch the spreadsheet for good: Whisper Money is a privacy-first personal finance app you host yourself to see exactly where your money goes, without your data being sold or profiled for ads. Connect multiple bank accounts in one place, fill them by hand or CSV import, and watch transactions categorize themselves automatically. Automation rules handle the repetitive sorting: rent, subscriptions, and transfers land in the right buckets every time. Brokers and exchanges including Indexa Capital, Coinbase, Binance, Bitpanda, Wise, and Interactive Brokers connect with your own API keys, so investments sit beside everyday spending. Optional open banking through EnableBanking can pull a year of movements and keep them current, and it stays switched off until you configure it. AI features suggest categories and rules and summarize your stats reports, and you choose the provider: Gemini by default, or OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, DeepSeek, Mistral, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or a local Ollama server so nothing leaves your infrastructure. Spending pattern insights turn raw transactions into an honest picture of your habits, month after month. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. CC BY-NC 4.0 licensed.